Re: Form drom dos program will not "Full Screen" in XP as in 98 or

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From: David Candy (.)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 04:31:25 +1100

It actually a stupid answer. The issue is always simple and always a fault in the Dos program (especially if you wrote it yourself) or a misconfiguration between the Dos program and Windows settings. But I have no idea what you are talking about. Form drom dos is a meaningless thing to say. 

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"AMD" <AMD@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:B3000C8E-9172-40A9-B8A8-A358810F4C07@microsoft.com...
> This is of course an obvious answer, however it is not an option to put 
> another computer on the desk, or is it an option to 'just buy another' 
> program at this time for the customer. The expense for transfering the data 
> would be cost-prohibitive.
> Virtual machine would be to intensive for this machine. Do you mean to tell 
> me that Microsoft has ignored this problem altogether??? It is a simple video 
> resoloution issue...
> I know Microsoft wants to exterminate DOS; but there must be another 
> soloution.
> Thanks AMD
> 
> "Malke" wrote:
> 
>> AMD wrote:
>> 
>> > I have had this problem before where a FORM from a dos program will
>> > not size to a full screen when changed to NT O/S or in XP. The
>> > customer "could" live with it before. However this time I need to get
>> > it back to full screen because of vision problems of the user. Any
>> > suggestions of a fix? I'm sure
>> > many have ran into this situation.  I have tried to adjust the
>> > properties 'screen' menu with not much success. HELP?? and Thanks AMD.
>> 
>> Since none of the NT-based operating systems (which include XP) have
>> native DOS, not all DOS programs will work well or the same under those
>> operating systems. NT/XP use a DOS emulator. It might be better for
>> your customer if you just set them up a DOS machine or one running
>> Win9x if they need this particular program. Other options would be for
>> the customer to move to a 32-bit program that is supported by XP or to
>> purchase something like VirtualPC 2004 and create a virtual machine
>> running either DOS or Win9x.
>> 
>> Malke
>> -- 
>> MS MVP - Windows Shell/User
>> Elephant Boy Computers
>> www.elephantboycomputers.com
>> "Don't Panic!"
>>

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